[imc-tech-solidarity] updates and good news from LA

[Sheri Herndon]

hi everyone, josh, evan,

please count me in on the paperwork end of things if i can help in 
some way.  to help pick up the slack.

sheri
seattle

At 6:56 PM -0800 12/26/02, evan@protest.net wrote:
>It can be done remotely, although it's more dificult. Another option is to
>have everything shipped out of Portland instead of Oakland. The costs are
>about the same. The only disadvantage is that freegeek doesn't have as
>much space or a loading dock.
>
>Unlike Ecuador, Argentina doesn't have a consolate in San Francisco so
>there would be no difference on that account. All west cost activities go
>through the Consolate in Los Angeles. On the plus side, the Argentine
>Consolate is open 5 hours a day on weekdays, as opposed to the three hours
>the Ecuadorian one is open. ;)
>
>Josh if you want to coordinate the paperwork part, with help of course,
>then i think it makes sense to try and have the container leave from
>Portland. For the east coast of south america all containers are shipped
>to either Houston or Miami via rail before being loaded on ships. It
>doesn't matter if we load them on a train in Portland or Oakland.
>
>If you have it leave from Portland you'll be able to get physical copies
>of the Bill of Lading, write up a detailed inventory/manifest of goods in
>the container, etc... The hard part is just getting the right paperwork
>copied, faxed, and fedexed to the right office so they can give it the
>proper stamps of approval. It's also important to know that all paperwork
>needs to be signed off before the container is shipped. This means both
>the US and Argentine end.... What i've yet to really figure out is how the
>hell you're susposed to get the bill of lading signed off. See you don't
>get it until you load up the container. But you need the consolates and
>customs to sign off on it BEFORE the container is loaded and shipped. I
>think there must be some way out of this logistical time travel, but i've
>not found it yet.
>
>So we have to find a way for freegeek to get paletts of computers, store
>them, then load them in to the container when it arrives. Their space
>didn't seem that big to me so i think we need to see if it's ok. Also i'm
>a little worried about them not having a loading dock.
>
>-evan
>
>On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Joshua Eichen wrote:
>
>>  I've been talking to a teamster in Portland about getting a 
>>discount on shipping
>>  the computers from here to Oakland.  I'll post a number to the 
>>list when I have
>>  one.
>>
>>  Would it be possible to coordinate the shipping from somewhere outside of
>>  Oakland?
>>  Joshua
>>
>>  > The other problem is fundraising. It's $2800 to ship from Oakland to the
>>  > east coast of south america. We can assume that it is at least $3000 in
>>  > expenses just to get the container out of customs and to a warehouse in
>>  > the recieving country. In addtion we've got probally $500 in expenses on
>>  > the US end. For the trucks to get all the computers to Oakland.
>>
>>
>
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